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Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, 5th Edition

by Ben Forta
January 2020
Beginner
256 pages
5h 11m
English
Sams
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Lesson 14. Combining Queries

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use the UNION operator to combine multiple SELECT statements into one result set.

Understanding Combined Queries

Most SQL queries contain a single SELECT statement that returns data from one or more tables. SQL also enables you to perform multiple queries (multiple SELECT statements) and return the results as a single query result set. These combined queries are usually known as unions or compound queries.

There are basically two scenarios in which you’d use combined queries:

Image To return similarly structured data from different tables in a single query

To perform multiple queries ...

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